FitZ wrote:It seems to have been stored quite well ..& even it could be a nice material for dubplte cuts..ain't it? Goes for £56

Exactly - cuz note on the box is written vocals 1 trk audio 2cnd track 'please sum to mono',So you'd think its a split track deal with vox acapella on one track,Also if its EMI tape its probably fine, I think it was some bad batches of Ampex 456 that turned to goo

it was Ampex that had the biggest issue, but any old tape can go bad if stored worng. Gven its a 1/4 track master, I am wondering if it is a storage dub and not the real master

But the legal definition of a producer isn't the one who owns the master tape ?I think so...

Mr Thô

The purchaser does now own a master recording (of sorts) it may be the original master or it could be a copy known as a production master. The person who originally paid for and arranged the recording to take place is probably still in title 'the producer' of that recording as played direct from the tape. The purchaser "officially" needs the permission of the person who owns the rights to the song to do anything commercially with it. i.e. if they created a new mix or remix from the contents of the tape and wanted to replicate it or play it in public. The rights owner may be Rod Taylor if he wrote the song or in fact anyone else he may have subsequently sold or transferred the rights to.

dougie conscious wrote:a tape that old might be knackered,if not kept in storage at right room temp it will stick together or go mouldy and have to be baked,cant see the piont of buying it myself if youve allready got the tune on 12,if it was diffrent cuts then yer i would buy it,respect dougie

"To be baked". Dougie I am not really familiar with the subject but I'd like to know how it works. How does one bake a tape? In the kitchen oven? At what temperature?